You can't boot from a loopback file... can you?

Something along the lines of root=/dev/hda1/bigfile.dd ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 10:16 a.m.
To: linux users
Subject: Re: usind dd to clone hard drive


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 08:49, gjw49 wrote:
> Just out of interest, is there any reason why it shouldn't work going 
> from a
> smaller hard disk to a larger hard disk? 
I have no reason, but I would not do it none the less :)  I would just DD
the disk to a file on the larger disk and mount the image through a loopback
device.  (It'll save space.)
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